By Sandra Beasley. My god is a short god. My god wears jeans. When he swims, he has a lazy breaststroke. When he gardens, he uses his bare hands. My god watches reruns of late night talk shows.

The book contains poems written about God (or as if they came to us from God) from Christian mystics (e.g. Catherine of Sienna, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, St. Francis Assisi, Meister ...

A controversial poem by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy claiming that “God is Gay” is like the writings of the Apostle Paul, an outspoken Church of England bishop has argued.

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Grace Kolb, who was 12 at the time, wrote a poem to express her feelings about her father Jason's skiing accident that left him paralyzed.